Monday, January 30th, 2012

Rattle #36 Winter Reading

On Sunday, January 15th, Rattle held a reading for issue #36 at the Church in Ocean Park, in Santa Monica, CA. Eight poets from the issue read samples of their work: Teresa Chuc Dowell Alan Fox Sonia Greenfield Bruce McBirney Peg Quinn Diana M. Raab Ephraim Scott Sommers Craig van Rooyen Teresa Chuc Dowell, a [...]

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Sunday, January 1st, 2012

“Consider the Silence” by Alan Fox

Alan Fox CONSIDER THE SILENCE That open space which goes all the way back to the beginning from the beginning until you knew, a little at first then more, then now. Consider the silence which starts when you don’t think any more and first by second stretches from there to far away. Yet the silence [...]

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Monday, November 7th, 2011

“Intimacy” by Alan Fox

Alan Fox INTIMACY I know something about gifts, especially today, the day after my 66th Christmas, most given with love, but often side-armed as a stone which skips across the water then sinks. I do know something about gifts, both given and received, which is why, though I have much to say, the first and [...]

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Thursday, July 7th, 2011

“Vanished” by Alan Fox

Alan Fox VANISHED Fondly, I covet my neighbor’s life the leaves in his garden, flustering the wind I blow from running thirsty steps from doom. Along the river there is bank, along the bank a path, a road, a house, and barbeque, English, Art, and Math. When time comes as it never can I think [...]

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Saturday, May 21st, 2011

“Glimpse” by Alan Fox

Alan Fox GLIMPSE           After Mrs. Henderson Presents Auto-immune disease rages throughout the world tonight as cells at war in a single body— call it diabetes, call it AIDS— kill each other off. The search for a cure rages throughout the world tonight as scientists search for antidotes— call them antibiotics, [...]

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